I feel clever when I immediately know the reference in the patient's name. This could be a reference to Moore's law - essentially that computers double in complexity every two years. Gordon E. Moore co-founded Intel.

I feel less clever for using Google to learn of an important document on trilobites edited by Raymond Moore in 1959: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1, including Trilobitomorpha)

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